Movies like The Mad Room
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The Mad Room (1969)
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
This compelling remake of the classic 'Ladies In Retirement (1941)' stars Stella Stevens as Ellen, a woman living as a companion to her future mother-in-law, wealthy and very irascible widow Mrs. Armstrong (Shelley Winters). Soon after, Ellen's younger brother and sister, one of whom murdered their parents (they can't remember which one of them did it), are released from an asylum and come to live with them. And thus begins a chilling mystery loaded with twists and thrills, as director Bernard Girard (Dead Heat On A Merry-Go-Round) keeps tightening the screws brilliantly.
Style:
psychotronic, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, female protagonist, widow, guilt, female psychopath, mental institution, psychopath, obsession, family relations, mental illness, small town, siblings relations, family in danger, woman in danger, small town life, eccentric family, golden years, family gatherings, dog, house, parents, brother sister relationship, garden, corpse, secret ...
Time:
60s
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Most similar movies to The Mad Room
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and realistic films with plots about deadly, murder, danger, gory, psychopath, serial killer and suspense mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Mad Room: Bundy: An American Icon (2009), Pretty Dead (2013), Dark Places (2005), Boogeyman (2012), Last Girl Standing (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bundy, starring Corin Nemec in the title role and co-starring Kane Hodder, details the dark psyche and previously unexplored motivations of the man who became known as one of the most notorious serial killers to leave behind a legacy of evil.
Style:
slasher, serious, disturbing, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, obsession, psychopath, woman in danger, violence spree, killer, villain, human nature, male female relationship, deadly, gory
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa
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95%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
After killing and cannibalizing several men and being found unfit for trial, Regina Stevens desperately tried to convince her psychiatric caregivers that she wasn't mentally ill, but was in fact slowly becoming a real life zombie.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, weird
Plot:
zombie, found footage, mental illness, parasite, custody, doctors and patients, mental institution, suicide attempt, body horror, supernatural power, woman in danger, superhuman powers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Keri Walker is a drug-addicted prostitute who ends up killing her latest john in self-defense. She finds shelter at a place run by a couple who find pleasure in others' pain. The haven house turns into a hell house and Keri must do whatever she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, surreal ...
Plot:
prostitute, murder, life is a bitch, drug abuse, addiction, sexual relations, couples, gay, suspense, death, drugs, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
558
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of young boys inadvertently free the creature from captivity. Going on a rampage, the Boogeyman, whose origin dates back to the time of Genesis, targets an innocent child – whose father is the town Sheriff (McClintock).
Style:
humorous, scary, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
psychopath, siblings relations, violence spree, religions or cults, single parent, rivalry, boogeyman, deadly, danger
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
She survived a brutal massacre, but lost her life. What happens to the final girl once the credits have rolled? Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has tried to make sense of ...
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot:
serial killer, troubled past, girl, violence, psychopath, maniac, murder, brutality, woman in danger, revenge, suspense, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A group of medical students undertake some silly and frightening endeavors in order to pledge a fraternity.
Style:
realistic, serious, scary, psychotronic
Plot:
fraternity, cemetery, college, siblings relations, doctors and patients, school, curses spells and rituals, friendship, woman in danger, college life, prank, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A man wanders into the woods in search of his cat and witnesses a murder
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic
Plot:
murder, afterlife, isolation, witness, ghost, haunted by the past, very little dialogue, excavation, elderly man, strangulation, corpse, forest ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
On the outside Adam appears to be a normal teenager, but underneath...his mind has been so rotted by trauma from his past and the gory films he watches, that he has blurred the lines between reality and pretend! This prompts Adam to start killing ...
Style:
slasher, serious, realistic, suspenseful, controversial
Plot:
obsession, serial killer, murder, psycho, youth, teenage life, mentally unstable, terrorism, suspense, female nudity, teenage murderer, gory ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas' teachings and uses his spiritual messages of Karma - action and reaction (Vipaka), against him to terrorize him ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, slasher, realistic
Plot:
psychopath, confined, family in danger, rivalry, split personality, terror, murder, maniac, villain, mental illness, blaxploitation, bipolar disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
While traveling down a desolate road, Maria comes upon an apparently abandoned school bus. A girl has written “Help Me” in one of the windows, and Maria quickly discovers the messy secrets that lie in the back of the bus. Maria soon finds ...
Style:
slasher, realistic, scary, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
woman in danger, phone sex, teenager, female protagonist, killer, redneck, exploitation, serial killer, masturbation, bus, female masturbation, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A lonely hotel by a lonely road. Sarah is lost, looking for somewhere to sleep. She's come to the wrong place. A lonely hotel by a lonely road. Sarah is lost, Jenny is looking for her. She's come to the right place. The Bridgeburn Hotel
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, confined, woman in danger, isolation, hotel, graphic violence, schizophrenia, gas mask, gory, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A romance novelist (David Arquette) moves into a "cottage" behind the home of a composer and his family. He seems sweet, but what do they really know about him?
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
tenant, psychopath, family in danger, couples, twists and turns, suburbs, parents and children, suspense, kidnapping, writers, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A deranged female serial killer stalks seven young people whom phone a radio call-in show to discuss their darkest fears and a night-long game of cat-and-mouse is put into motion by the darkly sinister-looking murderess.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, realistic, serious, scary ...
Plot:
murder, halloween, serial killer, psychopath, halloween party, chaos and mayhem, destiny, sister sister relationship, bad girl, cowardice, pirate, fear ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A middle-aged man dies in the street, leaving his widow and three children destitute. The devastated family is confronted not only with his loss but with a terrible challenge - how to survive. For they are cannibals. They have always existed on a ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, slasher, surreal, psychological ...
Plot:
cannibalism, murder, family problems, family in crisis, curses spells and rituals, family relations, death of father, serial killer, suspense, violence, survival, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
664
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Kelby Unger is a young man from a dysfunctional family that lives with his girlfriend Amelia Gates and has sleeping problems with dreadful nightmares. When he proposes Amelia, he coincidently receives a phone call from the warden of the prison of ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic
Plot:
dysfunctional family, parents and children, youth, homecoming, serial killer, social relations, small town life, suspense, babies and infants, small town, empire, nightmare ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Movies like Found
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
A professional hit man retires to his colorless apartment but soon starts to suffer from horrible headaches and hears voices. In order to cure himself, he hammers a nail into his skull.
Style:
disturbing, surreal, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
hitman, psychopath, masochist, addiction, life is a bitch, self mutilation, murder, violence, suspense, surrealism, violent, future dystopia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Nobody Loves Alice is about Alice, a sad and lonely woman who always dreamed of finding the right person to be with...
Style:
slasher, serious, rough, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
rivalry, vengeance, couples, infidelity, obsession, violence, woman kills a man, murder, female psychopath, loneliness, female killer, dismemberment ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
As Trevor drifts through Texas on collision course with a nightmare he is still haunted by the evils of the war he recently returned from and a promise he failed to keep. When a stranger offers a ride, Trevor finds himself battling the brutal ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
psychopath, haunted by the past, farm, murder, bondage, torture, redneck, nightmare, suspense, kidnapping, hanging, rape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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545
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A screenwriter is plagued by nightmares as he writes a script about a family that was slaughtered years before. Soon, the grisly murders he's writing about starts to actually happen.
Style:
scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
serial killer, screenwriter, premonition, psychopath, supernatural being, pregnancy, forces of nature, graphic violence, sexual content, obsession, flashback, baseball ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
5150 ELM'S WAY is located at the end of a quiet street in a small town. When Yannick fell off his bike, he knocked at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he could clean the blood off his hands. But Jack Beaulieu and his family had other plans ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, kidnapping, chess, obsession, unlikely criminals, mentally unstable, confinement indoors, confined, vigilantism, good versus evil, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alex, an up-and-coming TV journalist, returns to her hometown of Danford as local police attempt to cope with a series of brutal murders. The small town plunges into a state of panic and the murders--clearly the work of a monster, more beast than ...
Style:
scary, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
werewolf, small town, murder, monster, supernatural, hitchhiker, journalist, human becoming an animal, small town life, journalism, serial killer, dangerous animal ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, scary, mystical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
monster, nightmare comes true, family in danger, supernatural, suburbs, youth, brother brother relationship, supernatural horror, suspense, nightmare, mysticism, dark past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Liechtenstein
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young woman just released from a mental institution returns home to her mansion and faces a new set of horrors.
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
mute, mental institution, insanity, disability, psychopath, estate, confined, mentally unstable, treasure hunt, misfit, mute or deaf, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, prehistoric times
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Lee Hyun-min, who works reconstructing faces from skull, quits his work in a institute to stay with his Beta-allergic daughter Jin that was submitted to a transplant of heart by the specialist Dr. Yoon. The newcomer researcher to the institute Jung ...
Style:
psychological, serious, scary, mind bending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
afterlife, serial killer, ghost, murder, psychopath, police investigation, supernatural, transplant, prostitute, vampire, race against time, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, scary, suspenseful, serious, rough
Plot:
serial killer, torture, bondage, confined, psychopath, strong violent content, dishonesty, woman in danger, filmmaking, captivity, satire, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Dave's brother Trent was enticed by dark forces and entrapped in a lair of sin. Trent was under the control of Tracey, the drug-dealing seductress who had spun this web of wrongdoing. It was a world of erotic indulgence, frequent drug use, and ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, controversial, realistic ...
Plot:
suspense, femme fatale, mind game, investigation, obsession, dangerous attraction, haunted by the past, supernatural, survival, life is a bitch, couples, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, rivalry, supernatural, survival, confined, escapades, ancient mystery, woman in danger, destiny, cons and scams, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Patrick stars as a private investigator traumatized by his father's suicide who goes undercover in a mental institution to uncover the murderer of his psychiatrist.
Style:
scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, mental institution, murder, working undercover, doctors and patients, cons and scams, hospital, clinic, power relations, private detective, amateur detective ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The Orphan Killer is a tour de force murder flick that defies classification. It goes far beyond current trends in gore and breaks open a new suffering genre of horror. Marcus Miller is a serial murderer hellbent on teaching his estranged sister ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot:
psychopath, murder, siblings relations, vengeance, haunted by the past, family relations, orphan, serial killer, church, killer, zombie, violent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, mind bending, realistic ...
Plot:
christmas, murder, forest, suspense, hagsploitation, psychopath, family gatherings, estranged father, rainstorm, sibling relationship, father, killer ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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